There is nowhere for you to go.

Not today.”

She got both of them into the bassinets and then she came back and did something I have never forgotten.

She put her hand flat on my sternum, which is not a nursing manoeuvre, and she held it there, and she said: “Breathe out.

Longer than that.

Again.”

And then she said: “Whatever this is, it will still be there in an hour.

You will not.”